About 40% of California’s community college courses are online now, redefining education. These courses are more accessible, college officials say, but they come with serious drawbacks.

Students who enroll, pay housing fees, and physically live on campus are increasingly being funneled into online classes — ...

As the pandemic led colleges and universities to offer most courses remotely, online classes became commonplace by necessity. Now students have more choices as institutions adjust course offerings to ...

Ricardo Alcaraz is taking three of his five courses online this semester at Santa Ana College: an anthropology class, business calculus and business law. It’s a course schedule that reflects a new ...

Steven Gallegos, center, mingles during a “club rush” event at East Los Angeles College. He is one of many students who is choosing to stick with online classes despite California community college ...

Steven Gallegos keeps a demanding schedule. As student body president at East Los Angeles College, he pitches ideas for improving mental health services and distributes groceries to students in need.

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